basho/rebar — pull request #150 by dizzyd (2011-10-26 06:08:24+00:00)
Title: Dss env perf fix

The introduction of setup_env as a global concept caused the rebar_port_compiler
implementation to start getting called a LOT. The expansion of environment variables
that happens in the port compiler was O(n^n), which means you could see upwards of
80k invocations of lists:foldl on a single app "./rebar clean". This commit reworks
the expansion to be O(n^2), and reduces the running time for the same operation by
60%+. On a large project like Riak, the end result is that a build went from 200
seconds to 73.